Vehicle-wheel.



G. VINET.

VEHICLE WHEEL. APPLICATION FILED MAY 31, 1906.

910,61 2. 1 Patented Jan. 26, 1909.

V/ W J GASTON vINET', or NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE, FRANCE.

VEHICLE-MEL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 26, 1909.

Application lmea May 31, 1906. Serial No. 319,533.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GASTON VINET, a citizen of the French Republic,residing at Neuilly-sur-Seine, in France, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Vehicle-Wheels, of which the following is aspecification;

This invention relates to improvements in a removable or detachable rimfor a vehicle wheel provided with a pneumatic tire I already inflated,which can be quickly removed from or placed on a-wheel, the tire ofwhich has been punctured.

The main object of the invention is to insure absolute concentricity ofthe removable rim on the fixed rim of the wheel and it also relates tothe method of fixing the movable mm.

in the accompanying drawing is shown a cross section with a erspectiveview of a movable rim of the said i a. fixed rim of a vehicle wheel.

This system comprises a movable rim g on which is mounted a pneumatictire of-any construction. This rim is provided at each side withinclined lportions d and 6.

0n the other hand, the fel y of the wheel is provided with a metalliclioop f with a flange k, the said hoop having a smaller diameter thanthat of the movable rimc. The fixing of the said rim 0 to the hoop f iseffected by means of two lateral wires or cables a and b, thedevelopment of which corresponds to the outside periphery of the hoop f.One of these wires, (1, rests, when it is put in place on the movablerim 0, against the flange k of the hoop f and is thus pressed betweenthe said flan e and the corresponding inclined portion of the rimsystem, mounted on c. The second-wire b is placed on the edge of thehoop f op osite to the flange k, so as to rest against t e inclinedportion e of the rim 0 and to be wedged between the said inclinedportion, the hoop f and a rirg it held strongly applied against the wallof the telly g, b the nuts of bolts i which pass through t e felly g,the heads of which rest against the flange Zc. In this manner the wiresa, and b are caused to fix the movable rims c concentrically upon thefixed rim g, as owing to the pressure exerted by the bolts i upon thering it the said wires wedge beneath the inclinations upon the rim 0;this concentric fixing being eflected whatever variations may eXist indifferent movable rims both as regards diameter and the inclinationsupon the exterior portions against which the wires (1 and b arecompressed.

What I claim is In a vehicle wheel, a felly, a removable rim whichcarries an inflated pneumatic tire,

inclined surfaces upon said rim, endless wires between the telly and theinclined sidesof said removable rim and means comprising a flanged hoopand a ring retained y a series of nuts and bolts for causing saidendless wires to contact said inclined sur faces and hold the removablerim concentric with the telly.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

GASTON VINET.

Witnesses HANSON O. Come, Gnoaens BONNEUIL.

